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Beer, but no money, stolen in break-in at Pittsburgh bar
WPXI ^ | April 21, 2017 | uncredited

Posted on 04/21/2017 11:00:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog

PITTSBURGH - Police were searching Friday morning for a burglar who broke into a Carrick bar.

Channel 11’s Steven Fisher reported that police and the owner were called to the Double Door Bar at 4 a.m. when a security alarm went off.

Officers found the cash register on the ground, but no money was missing.

The burglar took two six-packs of Coors Light beer.

The owner told Channel 11 News that the surveillance cameras at the bar were not working.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: beer; crime; morons; pittsburgh
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To: Buckeye McFrog

> That Literary Club was recently in the news. <

Interesting. I missed that. But I quit the Literary Club even before I moved from Pittsburgh. They had the nerve to ask me for a membership card when I was drinking there one evening (it was at 3 AM, so I guess it was actually one morning).

Anyway, I didn’t have a current membership card. So they threw me out. And so I quit. Not that I belonged in the first place.


21 posted on 04/21/2017 11:33:12 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

My brother belonged to one called the South Hills Republican Club. He was probably the first Republican to set foot in the place since 1928.


22 posted on 04/21/2017 11:37:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Mount Oliver is being taken over by immigrants from Nepal. They are actually an improvement over the prior residents. At least they all seem to work for a living.”

Yes ... Mt. Oliver is improving thanks to the Nepali. It’s having an effect in places like Arlington and small parts of Carrick as well as parts of Brentwood that started to take a dive.

There is still a TON of improvement to be made though ... I wouldn’t risk any investments there either :-) ... Pittsburgh’s overall population is anywhere from static to down a bit year after year ... what happens is people flock to the trendy areas while other areas rot.

Brentwood (just outside of the city and borders Carrick) seems to be holding steady after a decline from 1990 until roughly 5 years ago ... it seems to be rebounding ... I have no idea why :-).

Getting back to Mt. Oliver ... have you ever seen the old mansions scattered throughout the borough? It is a crying shame what the ghetto-filth have done to them ... we are talking turn of the 20th century GORGEOUS mansions that they reduced to nothing more than vandalized crackhouses.

I used to hang out in Mt. Oliver :-) ... it was always shady, but it started to nosedive in the late 80s and was a total disaster up until recently. It’s a damn shame too ... all of Brownsville Road could be top-of-the-line real estate if the City of Pittsburgh would ever get its act together.

My mom grew up in Carrick ... my grandparents moved out of there in 1980. It used to be one of the nicest neighborhoods in the area ... it is the exact opposite of that now. There are some parts that are still nice, but I wouldn’t advise any family to move there.


23 posted on 04/21/2017 12:02:27 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
That's a very misleading headline for those of us who don't consider Coors Light to be real beer.

When we go out to dinner, Dad's rule is this: I'll buy the first round, but you're on your own after that. Damned if I'll pay $6 or more for Bud Light or other swill. When I'm out, it's Shiner Bock or something similar.

I have no qualms in saying I got spoiled in Germany. I mostly drank Konigsbacher or Bitburger. Didn't matter, wherever I went, the beer was world class.

College prepared me well for Germany. I was the rare American that could hang in there with the natives.

24 posted on 04/21/2017 12:08:31 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Leaning Right

“And if you want to know what Brentwood will be like 10 years from now, look at Carrick today.”

Given Brentwood’s history, I can’t say that is going to hold true overall. People are quite in love with that place for some reason and will defend it to the death. While it has declined, the decline has leveled out.

Also, there’s a good chance you’ll see Brentwood become part of Baldwin/Whitehall sooner rather than later.

I grew up in Brentwood ... I hate what it’s become (never really liked it outside of friends and family prior to that), but there are plenty of signs of life left in that place.

Carrick has gotten ridiculously worse over the past 20 years while Brentwood only got “somewhat” worse. While your friend is certainly right to some degree, I wouldn’t say it’s a 10 year trend ... more like 20 or so if the current path to destruction continues :-).


25 posted on 04/21/2017 12:09:55 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Night Hides Not
My beer of choice while stationed in Germany was Schultheiss.


26 posted on 04/21/2017 12:18:04 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: Night Hides Not
I have no qualms in saying I got spoiled in Germany. I mostly drank Konigsbacher or Bitburger. Didn't matter, wherever I went, the beer was world class.

So, you go with the beer philosophy "more bitter, more better"?

27 posted on 04/21/2017 12:22:24 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: edh

What “MAY” happen is that the highly gentrified (and increasingly unaffordable) South Side may wind it’s way up South 18th. Street and begin to push its way into Mt. Oliver. With some investment that business district along Brownsville could be a hopping place.


28 posted on 04/21/2017 12:26:19 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: JimRed
I'll admit that Bitburger was an acquired taste. My beer of choice was Konigsbacher. Too bad they don't export to the US.

At least once a month, I'd have lunch at their restaurant next to the brewery in Koblenz. Had a nice view of the Rhine, food was great (usually jägerschnitzel), and they served bock bier every day.

29 posted on 04/21/2017 12:54:45 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"The burglar took two six-packs of Coors Light beer."

This crosses me off the suspects list. I only drink real beer.
30 posted on 04/21/2017 12:59:41 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: mountn man

Your old pal Patty, would have easily carried the cash register AND a barrel of beer all the way home.


31 posted on 04/21/2017 1:09:55 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Beer, but no money, stolen in break-in at Pittsburgh bar

I was going to post, "Beer will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no beer."

Then I saw it was light "beer." I've p!ssed fluids that were closer to real beer than is light "beer."

32 posted on 04/21/2017 1:19:58 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I grew up in Carrick.


33 posted on 04/21/2017 1:27:23 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: eCSMaster

You have to be really saddened by what’s happened to it then.


34 posted on 04/21/2017 1:34:16 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“What “MAY” happen is that the highly gentrified (and increasingly unaffordable) South Side may wind it’s way up South 18th.”

That’ll only happen if Pittsburgh’s population grows. Some people are bailing South Side for East Liberty and Lawrenceville (if you haven’t been in this city for a while, you will NOT recognize those two places ... you wouldn’t believe how much they’ve changed).

It’s a whack-a-mole problem ... you nail one area, restore it, then another “problem” area pops up since people vacate one and move to another with no newbies to fill in the gap.

If they’d do something about the ridiculous school taxes in Allegheny County, I have ZERO doubt that people would move here in a nanosecond. They eat up any potential gain in home market value each year at this point. You have to have some serious love for the city to choose to live there.


35 posted on 04/21/2017 1:59:42 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

On the surface, my house, neighborhood looks pretty much the same.

Never was high-class, just blue-collar, largely Catholic, no Mt. Lebanon.


36 posted on 04/21/2017 2:03:36 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: edh

The city is trying to deliberately relocate the people who are being gentrified out of East Liberty to other city neighborhoods.

I take that as the Democrats running this town don’t want to lose their captive, dependent voter base to places like Wilkinsburg, Braddock or Penn Hills.

But it does create this whack-a-mole decay you describe.


37 posted on 04/21/2017 2:30:16 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: HonkyTonkMan
They should check for a small notepad out by the street...

Cledus Snow: [writing a note] "Send bill to Big Enos Burdette; Burdette; B, B-e-r, B-u-r...

(Trans-Am tires squeal off-camera)

"...Hell, I got to go!" (tosses notepad)

38 posted on 04/21/2017 3:30:59 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’d pity the fool who’d try to get in his way.


39 posted on 04/21/2017 3:39:08 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Charles Martel

Great lines...classic


40 posted on 04/21/2017 4:24:14 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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